Published Research

Peer reviewed

Rothmund, T., Bromme, L., & Azevedo, F. (2020). Justice for the People? How Justice Sensitivity Can Foster and Impair Support for Populist Radical‐Right Parties and Politicians in the United States and in Germany. Political Psychology, 41(3), 479-497. DOI: 10.1111/pops.12632; ungated

van der Linden, S., Panagopoulos, C., Azevedo, F., & Jost, J. T. (2020). The Paranoid Style in American Politics Revisited: An Ideological Asymmetry in Conspiratorial Thinking. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3(3), e1. DOI: 10.1111/pops.12681; ungated

Azevedo, F., Jost, J. T., Rothmund, T., & Sterling, J. (2019). Neoliberal ideology and the justification of inequality in capitalist societies: Why social and economic dimensions of ideology are intertwined. Journal of Social Issues, 75(1), 49-88. DOI: 10.1111/josi.12310; ungated

Womick, J., Rothmund, T., Azevedo, F., King, L. A., & Jost, J. T. (2019). Group-Based Dominance and Authoritarian Aggression Predict Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(5), 643-652. DOI: 10.1177/1948550618778290; ungated

Hoffarth, M. R., Azevedo, F., & Jost, J. T. (2019). Political conservatism and the exploitation of nonhuman animals: An application of system justification theory. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(6), 858-878. DOI: 10.1177/1368430219843183. ungated

Azevedo, F., Jost, J. T., & Rothmund, T. (2017). “Making America great again”: System justification in the US presidential election of 2016. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3(3), 231. DOI: 10.1037/tps0000122; ungated

Jost, J. T., Langer, M., Badaan, V., Azevedo, F., Etchezahar, E., Ungaretti, J., & Hennes, E. P. (2017). Ideology and the limits of self-interest: System justification motivation and conservative advantages in mass politics. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3(3), e1. DOI: 10.1037/tps0000127; ungated

Other

Jost, J. T. (2020). A theory of system justification. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13qfw6w

Jost, J. T. (2019). A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(2), 263-314. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12297

Jost, J. T. (2017). Working class conservatism: a system justification perspective Current opinion in psychology, 18, 73-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.08.020

Other — Blog Post

Rogers, O. (2020, February 10). Conservatism, Systems, And Animal Ethics. Faunalytics

Video

Jangles Science Lad (2020, October 28). System Justification or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boot. Youtube. link

Science News

Ellwood, B. (2020, November 05). Conservatives’ propensity toward conspiracy thinking can be explained by a distrust in officials and paranoid thinking. link

Dolan, E. W. (2018, July 21). Authoritarian aggression and group-based dominance distinguished Trump supporters from other Republicans in 2016. link

General Media

Healy, M. (2020, October 16). Why do conspiracy theories about pedophilia hold such sway with some conservatives? The Los Angeles Times. article link; permanent link